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SAN DIEGO — The Red Sox entered baseball's winter meetings in search of three starting pitchers. It appears they may have reached their goal. Hours after acquiring one starting pitcher in Arizona's Wade Miley, the Boston Red Sox unloaded outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to the Detroit Tigers for right-hander Ricky Porcello. shortly after, according to a number or reports, the team signed free agent Justin Masterson to a free agent deal. The question is whether the team is considering Masterson for the rotation or a bullpen role. Cespedes spent the final two months of the 2014 season in Boston after a surprising deal that sent him from the Oakland Athletics for starting pitcher...

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SAN DIEGO — The Red Sox entered baseball's winter meetings in search of three starting pitchers. It appears they may have reached their goal.Hours after acquiring one starting pitcher in Arizona's Wade Miley, the Boston Red Sox unloaded outfielder...

After two near-misses, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout was named the American League Most Valuable Player Thursday. The National League winner was pitcher Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers, who won the Cy Young Award Wednesday.Trout was a...

BALTIMORE — Think for a second about postseason heroes in Orioles history.Once you move past Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson and Rick Dempsey, there's another pantheon reserved for guys who will never end up in the team's Hall of Fame, but provided a...

From the East Coast to the West Coast and points in between the Major League Baseball postseason starting on Tuesday provides tantalizing possibilities that a regional rivalry could determine the World Series champion.From a possible "Freeway...

Masahiro Tanaka, trying to rehab and avoid Tommy John surgery, was back on the mound for a bullpen session Saturday. His 25-pitch effort apparently went well. He won't be saving this season, whether he needs surgery or not, but the Yankees should...

NEW YORK — Shane Greene pitched eight-plus outstanding innings to lead the Yankees to a 1-0 victory in the finale of a four-game series with the Detroit Tigers on Thursday afternoon.
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera was playing pingpong against a teammate in the cramped home clubhouse at Joker Marchant Stadium on Saturday when he hit a ball so hard it bounced off the table and sailed across the room.
Cabrera...

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SURPRISE, Ariz. The wake lasted two days in a downtown hotel. Eric Hosmer had booked a room through the weekend at the Marriott on 12th Street in Kansas City. In his mind he mapped a schedule for the Royals during the final week of October: Win game...

— One of the more beloved players to don the Marlins' uniform has called it a career.
Dontrelle Willis, 33, informed the Milwaukee Brewers he is retiring. The Brewers in January signed Willis, a seminal figure with the Marlins from 2003-'07, to a minor...

LAKELAND, Fla. Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus is playing the percentages, and those percentages point toward first baseman Miguel Cabrera progressing from the anti-gravity treadmill to the field. Soon. Cabrera ran at 72 percent body weight a...

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Clayton Kershaw will need to find a little more room to his already crowded trophy case.
Just one day after garnering a third career Cy Young Award in unanimous fashion, the Los Angeles Dodgers ace became the first pitcher in 46 years to be named the...

DETROIT -- As left-handed reliever Andrew Miller spoke to the media in the clubhouse hallway Sunday night after the Orioles' American League Division Series clincher in Detroit, he was interrupted by a bellow.
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Pregame introductions: As the Orioles are introduced before Game 3, former Tigers outfielder Delmon Young does not get a friendly reception. And it's difficult to tell whether Tigers fans are booing Nelson Cruz because it sounds the same as when Orioles...